Lack of standards in informed consent in complementary and alternative medicine

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-130

  Caspi, Opher ^a   Holexa, Joshua ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Decision making; Informed consent; Medical ethics; Public health

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INFORMED CONSENT; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MUSIC THERAPY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STANDARDIZATION; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22144439742     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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